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For years the sound of Chicago Juke and ghetto house has remained one of the last untapped and truly underground genres of dance music. The origins of the style can be traced back to the first half of the 1990s, when DJs like Paul Johnson, DJ Deeon, and DJ Funk started speeding up Chicago house music and stripping it down to its bare-bone grooves, bass-lines, and raunchy lyrics on their productions for labels like Dance Mania. Ghetto house - or Booty house, as it was commonly called at the time - was born.
In recent years ghetto house has become even faster, with speeds reaching up to 180bpm, and incorporated more and more elements from hip-hop and r'n'b. Termed Juke and championed by artist such as DJ Slugo, DJ Clent, and DJ Rashad the style has remained a predominantly local affair, with countless productions appearing through underground imprints like DJ Godfather's Databass Online imprint, Juke Trax, Juke Trax Online…
For years the sound of Chicago Juke and ghetto house has remained one of the last untapped and truly underground genres of dance music. The origins of the style can be traced back to the first half of the 1990s, when DJs like Paul Johnson, DJ Deeon, and DJ Funk started speeding up Chicago house music and stripping it down to its bare-bone grooves, bass-lines, and raunchy lyrics on their productions for labels like Dance Mania. Ghetto house - or Booty house, as it was commonly called at the time - was born.
In recent years ghetto house has become even faster, with speeds reaching up to 180bpm, and incorporated more and more elements from hip-hop and r'n'b. Termed Juke and championed by artist such as DJ Slugo, DJ Clent, and DJ Rashad the style has remained a predominantly local affair, with countless productions appearing through underground imprints like DJ Godfather's Databass Online imprint, Juke Trax, Juke Trax Online…
